School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Mythos and Eros in Fin de Siecle Russia : Zinaida Gippius’ Sexual Revolution
Published 2007-03-01At the turn of the twentieth century, Russian writer Zinaida Gippius postulated a radical repudiation of the notions of biologically determined gender and sexuality. An active participant in the Russian religious renaissance ...Open AccessThesis -
Popular history and the desire for knowledge : an examination of James A. Michener’s The Source as a popular history of Israel
Published 2007-03-01This thesis explores the issues that arise when we consider James A. Michener’s number 1 best-seller The Source (1965) as a popular history of Israel. It examines the educational desires of middlebrow audiences that led ...Open AccessThesis -
The diachronic evolution of directional constructions in Mandarin
Published 2006-01-01This thesis investigates the diachronic evolution of directional constructions found in Mandarin and other modern varieties of Chinese. What I call directional constructions are usually called 'directional complements' ...Open AccessThesis -
Resultatives
Published 1983-01-01This paper looks at the syntactic and semantic conditions in English on resultative attributes, which describe the state of an entity resulting from the action denoted by the main predicate. It is argued that these entities ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Topic and focus in Ngardi
Published 2005-10-21This paper examines the discourse pragmatics of the non- configurational (free word order) Australian language Ngardi. Ngardi is a Ngumbin language spoken by a small number of people east of the Kimberleys. I examine ...Open AccessThesis